# Ok,Im new here,Carol is the name **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534 "2010-04-18T15:34:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/321 "2010-04-28T20:30:14Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Now I’m mentally picturing a vulture wearing one of those paper bibs like the lobster places have, only with a little monochrome silhouette of roadkill on it, tire marks and all. Wasn’t that a Far Side cartoon? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/322 "2010-04-28T20:48:46Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Wasn’t that a Far Side cartoon? No, Larson had one where a flock of vultures is gathered around an unidentifiable object, and one of them has, presumably, the dead cowboy’s hat and range jacket on, doing a cowboy impression (“Howdy! Howdy! Howdy!”). Edit: Actually, I guess it’s possible, because it really does SOUND like a Far Side joke. I don’t remember that it was one Larson ever drew, though. ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/323 "2010-04-28T21:05:33Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > The fluid in the eye would only stain the hide if the eyeball were punctured; a vulture will often pluck it out intact. Mmmm… vulture grapes. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/324 "2010-04-28T22:35:17Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > coWAnus I have been thinking that same thing this entire thread. > [@SoulFrost](#): > > Mmmm… vulture grapes. Is that like Buckeyes? [Ithink the answerlyes hear.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMgGC9W-ks8&feature=fvw) Hmmm? Now were cookin… ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/325 "2010-04-28T22:55:48Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > No, Larson had one where a flock of vultures is gathered around an unidentifiable object, and one of them has, presumably, the dead cowboy’s hat and range jacket on, doing a cowboy impression (“Howdy! Howdy! Howdy!”). > > Edit: Actually, I guess it’s possible, because it really does SOUND like a Far Side joke. I don’t remember that it was one Larson ever drew, though. I recall it was in a book of his, that had a chapter on cartoons that he drew that were rejected for use in a family paper. Another one had a dog begging for food at the foot of an operating table. What a sick man. I miss his cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/326 "2010-04-29T01:33:07Z")
I never saw a Farside that was too sick for me. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/327 "2010-04-29T02:11:14Z")
hey **outlierrn** now your cooking lol ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/328 "2010-04-29T02:21:57Z")
now now class,come to order at least now your payin attentoin ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/329 "2010-04-29T02:34:50Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I think it’s cute how the SDMB hoi polloi keeps explaining things to \*\*carol \*\*as though it will make a single dent in her arguments/beliefs/rantings-and/or-ravings. You could present video evidence of every cattle who has ever died … ever … being scavanged by coyote and vultures and boll weevils or whatever and the response will merely be, “yeah, but what about the other ones? Huh?” I know, they’re just so CUTE! > [@carol\_nistri](#): > > I give up, Oh, good. It’ll free up bandwidth for discussing something more useful. > [@carol\_nistri](#): > > I wonder why I bothered but I thought I could at least plant a seed of doubt, You definitely planted something, but I doubt it’s what you meant to plant. Suna Woc ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/330 "2010-04-29T03:10:21Z")
A great philosopher once said: “When a simple explaination explains the obvious, only a closed mind fails to believe the unbelieveable.” Suna Woc I love her quotes. ---
**Author:** ![carol\_nistri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@carol\_nistri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carol_nistri)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/331 "2010-04-29T09:55:25Z")
Sigh… ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/332 "2010-04-29T11:21:10Z")
> [@carol\_nistri](#): > > Sigh.. That’s the kind of insightful response to legitimate points we’ve come to expect from you. ---
**Author:** ![carol\_nistri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@carol\_nistri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carol_nistri)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/333 "2010-04-29T14:18:40Z")
I already told you all that I think crop circles are a black ops.I believe Vallee has hit the nail on its head. > **[Of Flattened Flora and Expulsion Cavities: The crop circle controversy...](https://boingboing.net/2010/04/28/of-flattened-flora-a.html)** > > Greenpeace’s GM Crop Circle from Circlemakers.org In an earlier post I reviewed some possible explanations for the crop circle phenomenon, and I noted the various theories left several issues… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/334 "2010-04-29T14:21:46Z")
> [@carol\_nistri](#): > > I already told you all that I think crop circles are a black ops. We know. What you didn’t tell us is: [ul] [li]Why are the black ops people making the circles?[/li][li]Why are other people taking credit for the circles?[/li][li]And even providing proof they made them?[/li][li]If Vallee wrong about the way lasers work, why is his explanation credible?[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/335 "2010-04-29T14:31:59Z")
> [@carol\_nistri](#): > > Sigh.. Next time, try planting those seeds of doubt in the _other_ guy’s field. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/336 "2010-04-29T14:35:25Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > We know. What you didn’t tell us is: > > [ul] > [li]Why are the black ops people making the circles?[/li][li]Why are other people taking credit for the circles?[/li][li]And even providing proof they made them?[/li][li]If Vallee wrong about the way lasers work, why is his explanation credible?[/li][/ul] This kind of thing, for the record, is what you keep ignoring, carol. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/337 "2010-04-29T14:39:18Z")
Have we explored the possibility that \*\*carol \*_is actually a member of the Black Ops who is trying to come in from the cold? And that this is her subtle way of crying out for a handler to bring her in, away from the psychotic Crop Circle Cattle Mutilators_? Just sowing seeds … - I hereby claim this as a band name, natch. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/338 "2010-04-29T14:40:06Z")
> [@carol\_nistri](#): > > I already told you all that I think crop circles are a black ops.I believe Vallee has hit the nail on its head. > [Of Flattened Flora and Expulsion Cavities: The crop circle controversy continues - Boing Boing](http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/28/of-flattened-flora-a.html) When I think ‘Black Ops’, I think of a bunch of Spetsnaz or Mossad dude swimming ashore and sneaking around under cover of darkness, then sniping some guy from a kilometer away and then sneaking out again, all with a plausible cover story. So…I’m visualizing Navy Seals, on a mysterious silent flying machine rappelling down and killing a cow, possibly with a neurotoxin, then dangling above it while they core its butt-hole and pluck out its eyes, possibly using some sort of laser or surgical device, then slithering up the lines and silently flying away. Is this more or less what we’re talking about? 'Cause I still don’t see why this explains things better than the other explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/339 "2010-04-29T14:42:47Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > So…I’m visualizing Navy Seals, on a mysterious silent flying machine rappelling down and killing a cow, possibly with a neurotoxin, then dangling above it while they core its butt-hole and pluck out its eyes, possibly using some sort of laser or surgical device, then slithering up the lines and silently flying away. All to the tune of Lalo Schifrin’s iconic theme from _Mission: Impossible._ ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534/340 "2010-04-29T14:51:41Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > All to the tune of Lalo Schifrin’s iconic theme from _Mission: Impossible._ There’s another thread - _Let’s all think of the shittiest sitcom idea we can pitch FOX_ - over in CS. I just realized that my post could just as easily fit there. In fact, I’m going to go post it, and maybe make a zillion dollars. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-new-here-carol-is-the-name/536534.md?page=18)